On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 23:19 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 14 October 2010 22:59:04 Alex Williamson wrote: > > The structs in question only contain 4 & 8 byte elements, so there > > shouldn't be any change on x86-32 using one-byte aligned packing. > > I'm talking about the alignment of the structure, not the members > within the structure. The data structure should be compatible, but > not accesses to it. > > > AFAIK, e820 is x86-only, so we don't need to worry about breaking anyone > > else. > > You can use qemu to emulate an x86 pc on anything...
You're right, I wasn't thinking about non-x86 emulating x86. I'll send a v2 with your suggestion. Thanks, Alex
